[ExI] This Company Wants to Put a Human-Size Hologram Booth in Your Living Room

[Adrian Tymes]

My hunch is this won't catch on, for the same reason that videophones have
not replaced telephones.

Yes, yes, there are Zoom calls these days: group calls, where video is
often a necessary part of the experience, not to see people (in the
majority of my online calls this year where it's just been people talking,
no one used video) but for presentations and similar sharing of data.

But there are still unscheduled synchronous voice-only calls where video
does not contribute, and thus is not generally supported.  Likewise,
holography would not contribute to said calls, so it is unlikely to be
adopted for that use.

For this technology to take hold, some application must be found where it
actually meaningfully contributes to the conversation, and is not just a
neat feature.  For all that proponents of video calls rail about the
benefits of body language and facial expression, people have been able to
communicate just fine over voice alone without those cues for over a
century, without - in almost all cases - missing anything significant.

On Sat, Nov 28, 2020 at 7:39 AM John Grigg via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> "Over the last several months we’ve gotten very used to communicating via
> video chat. Zoom, FaceTime, Google Hangouts, and the like have not only
> replaced most in-person business meetings, they’ve acted as a stand-in for
> gatherings between friends and reunions between relatives. Just a few short
> years ago, many of us would have found it strange to think we’d be spending
> so much time talking to people “face-to-face” while sitting right in our
> own homes.
>
> Now there’s a new technology looming on the horizon that may one day
> replace video calls with an even stranger-to-contemplate, more futuristic
> tool: real-time, full-body holograms.
>
> Picture this: you’re sitting in your living room having a cup of coffee
> when the phone-booth-size box in the corner dings, alerting you that you
> have an incoming call. You accept it, and within seconds your best friend
> (or your partner, your grandmother, your boss) appears in the box—in the
> form of millions of points of light engineered to look and sound exactly
> like the real person. And the real person is on the other end of the line,
> talking to you in real time as their holographic likeness moves around the
> box—you can see their gestures, body language, and facial expression just
> as if they were really there with you."
>
> https://singularityhub.com/2020/11/25/this-company-wants-to-put-a-human-size-hologram-booth-in-your-living-room/
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